Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his top deputy were expected to testify Friday to a federal grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his election loss, as first reported by ABC News.
Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration as Trump and outside allies pressed for ways to overturn the Republican’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The pair already testified to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempts to subvert the election. Their answers were truncated because the panel agreed they could invoke executive privilege to avoid discussing direct discussions with Trump.
